Dec 21, 2009
George Robins and Naboth Bird are young men for whom footracing is “their pastime, their passion, their principal absorption and topic of conversation”; although neither is a champion runner, each occasionally wins “some sort of trophy.”
On an August bank holiday, they go to a garrison town on the coast of England, where the holiday is being celebrated with a carnival of games. The crowd attending includes a medley of soldiers, sailors, most of the population of the town, and a number of blind beggars. The young men meet two girls who have come from...
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